Courses

GER 340C • Hist Backgrounds Of German Civ

37835 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.122

Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the beginning of the modern era, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be examined. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

We will study a variety of source texts and artifacts that will give you insight into historical developments, cultural production, and everyday life. You will learn to read and interpret various artifacts as specific forms of human thought and expression in their times. You also will be encouraged to reflect upon your own life as a point of comparison: this will help you understand how your own life, just like that of Germans in the past, is determined by the respective historical moment and the norms established by the cultural context.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Canvas in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course.

This course is part of our thematic course cluster and builds on the introductory course sequence (506, 507, 612) and our transitional courses (328, 330C). As in all of our courses, language learning will be an important objective. In this course, we will primarily focus on reading skills and on vocabulary building.

GLOBAL CULTURES FLAG:

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.

GER 340C • Hist Backgrounds Of German Civ

37105 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WEL 4.224

Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the beginning of the modern era, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be examined. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

We will study a variety of source texts and artifacts that will give you insight into historical developments, cultural production, and everyday life. You will learn to read and interpret various artifacts as specific forms of human thought and expression in their times. You also will be encouraged to reflect upon your own life as a point of comparison: this will help you understand how your own life, just like that of Germans in the past, is determined by the respective historical moment and the norms established by the cultural context.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Canvas in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course.

This course is part of our thematic course cluster and builds on the introductory course sequence (506, 507, 612) and our transitional courses (328, 330C). As in all of our courses, language learning will be an important objective. In this course, we will primarily focus on reading skills and on vocabulary building.

GLOBAL CULTURES FLAG:

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.

GER 392 • Space, Travel, And Discovery

37355 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM BUR 232

Perhaps the most important innovation in Early Modern Europe was a fundamental change of conceptions of space and of the human relationship to it--the discovery of perspective by Leonardo da Vinci, which puts the observing individual into its center, being the most obvious example. The link between knowledge and space was famously established by Petrarch in his hike up Mont Ventoux in 1336. Francis Bacon made the connection in the frontispiece to his Novum Organum (1620), which demanded an end to the conventional deductive method: Bacon's quest for knowledge is represented spatially by a single ship sailing into the open Atlantic past the pillars of Hercules, which guarded the straits of Gibraltar--the earth had become an endless sphere.

The Scientific Revolution was significantly a revolution of space and its perception: with the help of the microscope and telescope, humans gained access to spatial universes which were inaccessible before, and European discoveries of unknown parts of the world had to be integrated into existing systems of knowledge which were hostile to new empirical evidence. The `discovery' of America disrupted the spatial order as well as the anthropological order: it brought into focus issues of alterity, cultural superiority, and basic definitions of humanity.

We will look at the evolution of travel literature which as a genre underwent fundamental changes during our period of investigation. In the late Middle Ages reports on pilgrimages, particularly to Palestine, still are the only form of travel literature. Travel through the physical world merely serves as allegory of the pilgrim's spiritual journey.

Scholarship in cultural history responded with the so-called spatial turn, that is an effort to examine the relationship between space and human culture and civilization and to integrate spatial discoveries into the system of knowledge. One outgrowth of the renewed interest in space is a growing preoccupation with conceptions of alterity as can be seen in the vivid discussions of Native Americans and encounters with the cultures of the Orient. The course also will consider the effects of the first age of globalization that was ushered in by the new sea routes to the Americas established by the Spaniards and to East Asia by the Portuguese.

This course takes an interest in the interaction between space and human culture and civilization and in the integration of spatial discoveries into the system of knowledge. It explores texts written from the late 15th century to the time of Goethe that deal with the human interaction with space, both in fictional and non-fictional narratives--the pre-

GER 340C • Hist Backgrounds Of German Civ

37805 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM RLM 5.112

DESCRIPTION:Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the French Revolution, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be discussed. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Blackboard in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course. More than two unexcused absences may result in a lower grade.

Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the French Revolution, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be discussed. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Blackboard in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course. More than two unexcused absences may result in a lower grade.

CLASS AND CLASSROOM POLICIES:

Cell phones must be turned off in class; computers may be used only for note-taking or to search course-related materials. If a student uses electronic devices for non-class related activities and creates a disturbance s/he will be asked to leave for the remainder of that class.

ACADEMIC ASSISTANCE:

Academic Assistance is provided by the UT Learning Center, in JesterCenter, Room A332A. It offers help with college-level writing, reading, and learning strategies. It is free to all currently enrolled students. For requesting help you need in using the main library (PCL) or the Fine Arts Library (for films), see:

The University of Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-6441 TTY. Any student with a documented disability who requires academic accommodations should contact the Service for Students with Disabilities as soon as possible to request an official letter outlining authorized accommodations. This letter must be given to your instructor to receive accommodations. See: http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/ssd/index.php

RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS AND OTHER ABSENCES:

Students can make up work missed because of a religious holiday as long as they provide the instructor with documentation at least one week before the holiday occurs. The same applies to official university obligations like Club or Varsity sports. Documentation from a physician is required for medical absence;arrangements for work to be made up must be made promptly, and in no case should the work be completed more than two weeks after the absence. Other absences (e.g. family events) must be arranged for at least one week in advance and missed work must be turned in at the next class session after return.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:

Plagiarism and other forms of scholastic dishonesty will be reported to the Dean of Students. Cheating on tests or plagiarism onpapers is an F for the assignment, with no makeup possible.If you engage in any form of scholastic dishonesty more than once, you will receive an automatic F for the course.

GER 340C • Hist Backgrounds Of German Civ

38715 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM JES A209A

Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the beginning of the modern era, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be examined. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

We will study a variety of source texts and artifacts that will give you insight into historical developments, cultural production, and everyday life. You will learn to read and interpret various artifacts as specific forms of human thought and expression in their times. You also will be encouraged to reflect upon your own life as a point of comparison: this will help you understand how your own life, just like that of Germans in the past, is determined by the respective historical moment and the norms established by the cultural context.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Canvas in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course.

This course is part of our thematic course cluster and builds on the introductory course sequence (506, 507, 612) and our transitional courses (328, 330C). As in all of our courses, language learning will be an important objective. In this course, we will primarily focus on reading skills and on vocabulary building.

GLOBAL CULTURES FLAG:

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.

GER 340C • Hist Backgrounds Of German Civ

38490 • Spring 2008
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM JES A303A

Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the beginning of the modern era, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be examined. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

We will study a variety of source texts and artifacts that will give you insight into historical developments, cultural production, and everyday life. You will learn to read and interpret various artifacts as specific forms of human thought and expression in their times. You also will be encouraged to reflect upon your own life as a point of comparison: this will help you understand how your own life, just like that of Germans in the past, is determined by the respective historical moment and the norms established by the cultural context.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Canvas in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course.

This course is part of our thematic course cluster and builds on the introductory course sequence (506, 507, 612) and our transitional courses (328, 330C). As in all of our courses, language learning will be an important objective. In this course, we will primarily focus on reading skills and on vocabulary building.

GLOBAL CULTURES FLAG:

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.

GER 340C • Hist Backgrounds Of German Civ

37900 • Spring 2007
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM RAS 313B

Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the beginning of the modern era, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be examined. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

We will study a variety of source texts and artifacts that will give you insight into historical developments, cultural production, and everyday life. You will learn to read and interpret various artifacts as specific forms of human thought and expression in their times. You also will be encouraged to reflect upon your own life as a point of comparison: this will help you understand how your own life, just like that of Germans in the past, is determined by the respective historical moment and the norms established by the cultural context.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Canvas in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course.

This course is part of our thematic course cluster and builds on the introductory course sequence (506, 507, 612) and our transitional courses (328, 330C). As in all of our courses, language learning will be an important objective. In this course, we will primarily focus on reading skills and on vocabulary building.

GLOBAL CULTURES FLAG:

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.

GER 340C • Hist Backgrounds Of German Civ

38895 • Fall 2006
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM RAS 211B

Beginning with the development of medieval cities and concluding with the beginning of the modern era, this course focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary development of German-speaking Europe. Political, social, religious, economic, and philosophical developments as well as architecture, art, music, and literature of the time period will be examined. History will not be discussed in terms of specific events but rather in terms of large-scale developments and factors that contributed to them; focus will be on cultural history. Most importantly, we will learn to understand how Germany's past helped shape the Germany we know today.

We will study a variety of source texts and artifacts that will give you insight into historical developments, cultural production, and everyday life. You will learn to read and interpret various artifacts as specific forms of human thought and expression in their times. You also will be encouraged to reflect upon your own life as a point of comparison: this will help you understand how your own life, just like that of Germans in the past, is determined by the respective historical moment and the norms established by the cultural context.

You will be assigned daily readings and should expect to turn in at least one homework assignment per week. Some assignments will require group work (work in groups is generally encouraged). You also should expect one or two additional assignments that will require you to visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the HRC. You are expected to read the relevant pages in the textbook and/or the materials posted on Canvas in preparation for every class. One objective of this course is vocabulary building: you will receive lists with vocabulary taken from the reading assignment, and you are expected to be able to use that vocabulary in your homework and during exams. This course will be taught in German, but any motivated student with at least four semesters of college German can take this course.

This course is part of our thematic course cluster and builds on the introductory course sequence (506, 507, 612) and our transitional courses (328, 330C). As in all of our courses, language learning will be an important objective. In this course, we will primarily focus on reading skills and on vocabulary building.

GLOBAL CULTURES FLAG:

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.

37435 • Fall 2004
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM RAS 211A

GER 382N • Nature In Early Modern Thought

33775 • Spring 2001
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM EPS 4.102A

An interdisciplinary investiation of the significance of ideological structures of thought in historical contexts. Emphasis is on the genealogy, interpretative power, and critical reception of ideas that inform the ends and methods of German studies as a discpline. Three lecture hours a weekfor one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.